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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of upbraid.

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upbraid + -eth

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Examples

  • It reads: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

    Obama, Organizing Our Community - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState 2009

  • I believe in James, Chapter 1 Verse 5: "If any man lack wisdom, let him ask God, who giveth to all men and giveth liberally and upbraideth not."

    CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2007 2007

  • I believe in James, Chapter 1 Verse 5: "If any man lack wisdom, let him ask God, who giveth to all men and giveth liberally and upbraideth not."

    CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2007 2007

  • In Section IV., the bride again is the chief speaker, but after her restoration the Bridegroom speaks at length, and “upbraideth not.”

    Union and Communion 1832-1905 2000

  • ¶ If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

    James 1. 1999

  • Being sensible of our own insufficiency, earnest prayers for a supply of this wisdom are required in us: "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him," James i.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • I have, therefore, determined to place my chief dependence on His aid “who giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not.”

    A Dissertation on Divine Justice 1616-1683 1967

  • God or the edification of the souls of them that do believe, for "who is sufficient for these things?" but yet I dare not utterly faint in it nor under it, whilst I look unto Him whose work it is, who giveth wisdom to them that lack it, and upbraideth them not, James i.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Destitute, therefore, of any strength and boldness of my own, and of any adventitious aid through influence with the university, so far as I know or have deserved, it nevertheless remains to me to commit myself wholly to Him ‘who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not.’

    Life of Dr Owen 1965

  • St. James, _If any may lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him.

    Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

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